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QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

QUOTES BY FAMOUS PEOPLE

Famous Quotes by Famous People

3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

3 December 2020 Angelina Jolie

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

3 December 2020 Lynn Davies

There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.

3 December 2020 John Ruskin

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

3 December 2020 James Hillman

It’s very hard to know what wisdom is.

3 December 2020 Martha Plimpton

It’s long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women’s health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.

3 December 2020 Mitch Hedberg

I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re goin’, and hook up with them later.

3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

3 December 2020 Plato

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

3 December 2020 John Strachan

In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.

3 December 2020 Alexandra Paul

Women have this obsession with shoes.

3 December 2020 Martha Plimpton

It’s easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn’t have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.

3 December 2020 George A. Romero

My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I’m pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.

3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

3 December 2020 Sondre Lerche

I have this idealistic and maybe naive thought that almost any song can be anything. If you record one song today, it would maybe be exciting and cool. But I could record the same song next week and it would be something completely different.

3 December 2020 Daniel Goleman

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy

The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

3 December 2020 Cyril Connolly

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

3 December 2020 Sarah McLachlan

I’ve learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.

3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

3 December 2020 Ron Fournier

Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your presidency by writing for the Supreme Court majority to rule health care reform constitutional.

3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

3 December 2020 Luc Ferrari

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

3 December 2020 Dan Savage

The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he’s being bullied. I couldn’t go home and open up to my parents.

3 December 2020 W. C. Fields

I never worry about being driven to drink I just worry about being driven home.

3 December 2020 George Clooney

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad’s sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Power and speed be hands and feet.

3 December 2020 Jacques Ellul

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.

3 December 2020 Liam Neeson

I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I’m acting. It’s always, ‘When I say you’ll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?’ Then, ‘Yeah, Dad.’

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